Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. I wrote about Edward Tufte’s Cognitive Style of PowerPoint essay in a previous post. Marcus [...]
Posted September 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: cognitive style, dyn, edward tufte, insidious, killer app, nasa, nasa administrators, perils, powerpoint presentations, powerpoint sounds, rocket scientist, ruth marcus. 7 Comments.
That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at [...]
Posted August 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: access, change, change computers, computer, computing, critical mass, desktop apps, email, geek, geeks, information age, information system, internet, internet access, internet connected, killer app, market opportunity, network, paradigm shift, penetration, portable computing, web, web applications. 9 Comments.
